Category Archives: Style

Ideas on writing style

On Voice: Three Ways

We All Looked Up: Imagery, Metaphor and Word Choice in YA Lit

Gone Girl: To Be YA or Not To Be YA

Half Bad: Engaging Expectation in YA Lit

We Were Liars: Compositionally Unstable

Cress: Word Choice in YA Lit

The Eye of Minds: Pragmatic Implausibility in YA Lit

Blood Red Road: Language as Character & Setting in YA Lit

On Grammatical Person & the Element of Surprise

Allegiant: Thought Acts in YA Lit

Ashes: Thought Acts in YA Lit

The Maze Runner: Creating Tension & Suspense in YA Lit

On Filling the Well

The Fifth Wave: Embodying Narrative in YA Lit